Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wrote one North Dakota teen: "After your article about plastic surgery, I've been doing even more wishful thinking about a nose job." She was 14. A Las Vegas 13-year-old scrawled: "I wonder where I could get in on the action." Some are just refreshingly silly: "My problem is my big teeth. They stick out like a sore nose." "Enclosed is a picture of me. My friends think I'm ugly -and I'm not sure." "It's Halloween, and I feel like a witch. Can you help...
...Eighth Wonder. A three-story aviary will be filled with macaws, two types of parrots and cock-of-the-rock birds; there is an indoor sidewalk cafe open 24 hours a day on the floor of the lobby, a saucer-shaped cocktail lounge perched on a column one floor above -and 20 lobby hostesses in gold uniforms to pass out room keys and arrange for shopping tours, beauty appointments and baby sitters. For good measure, the hotel is topped by a restaurant that revolves 360° each hour, on a clear day gives diners a view of the Blue Ridge...
...already paid off. Though the hotel has been accepting guests for only a month and will not open officially for another two weeks, it already has well over $30 million in advance bookings. Visitors' reactions to the courtyard range from "a fabulosity" (an Atlanta attorney) to "the eighth wonder of the world" (a Chicago businessman). Indeed, so many bowled-over guests blurt out "Jeez!"-or stronger-when they first gaze up into 21 stories of space that hotel employees have already dubbed the spot in the lobby where the full height is first glimpsed with a name...
...Game? Faced with rising costs, many dioceses have shut down or combined marginal and inefficient schools, and some administrators are beginning to wonder whether it might ultimately be necessary to abandon parochial school education entirely. "If it comes to a point where we couldn't pay a living wage," admits Monsignor Donald Montrose, superintendent of Los Angeles' archdiocesan high schools, "maybe we shouldn't be in the education game." Noting that the expense of maintaining the U.S. church's century-old parochial school system is "becoming a real problem," St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter recently...
...students like poetry "because it seems to crystallize experience more deeply. One boy left school after reading Hart Crane, and I began to wonder what sort of power I am unleashing to them. They are willing to accept a variety of poetry as long as they get the sense that the poet respects the complexities of the world. They reject oversimplifications...